Hi Christian, > I would like to hear what other kernel developers think about this. I agree with Christians point of view (not quoted here).
while the original DOS-C kernel was probably programmed using (semi-) official documentation only (and which was hardly usable for any real world program), the current FreeDOS kernel depends heavily on reverse engineering MSDOS. and this includes disassembling MS-DOS when necessary and practical, as done by Schulman et. al. and many others, which is (partly) documented in the RBIL and many other places (Undocumented DOS). I don't see a problem with that. I don't see either how this would transfer MS code into our kernel. I completely disagree with Eric's and Jim's view that 'RBIL is the bible'. there's exactly one bible - and this is the MSDOS X.Y io.sys; free free to choose X and Y Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
